Why mcelog throws messages "Unsupported new Family 6 Model 25 CPU: only decoding architectural errors"?
Issue
- We are getting the following messages in console log. Are these harmful or not ?
- After VMware tool upgrade to vmware-tools-foundation-8.6.5-4.x86_64 noticed following error message in message log.
Nov 30 11:05:31 xxx mcelog: Unsupported new Family 6 Model 25 CPU: only decoding architectural errors
Nov 30 11:05:31 xxx mcelog: failed to prefill DIMM database from DMI data
Nov 30 11:05:31 xxx mcelog: mcelog read: No such device
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
- kernel-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6
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